Type-setting machine for various sizes of type.



0. A. ALBRECHT & L. LEIDENBERG. TYPE SETTING MACHINE FOR VARIOUS SIZBSOP TYPE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. G, 1909,

' 196L74 Patented June 14,1910.

.America, and a resident ing at Berlin,

CHRISTIAN A. ALBRECHT, F

- 'OF BERLIN entrant onion.

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AND LEOPOLID LEIDENBERG,

, GERMANY.

TYPE-SETTING MACHINE FOR VARIOUS SIZES OF TYPE.

' Application filed February.

Specification of Letters Patent.

6, 1909. Serial No. 476,462.

To all whom it my concern:

[Be it known that we, ,"C1nusr1An A. At- BRECHT, a citizen of the United States of of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, temporarily resid- Germaiiy, and LEOIOLD lininnnnnno, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Berlin,

provements in Type-Setting ,Machincs, of

which the following is a specification.

Our invention 1s intended more, part1cu -larly for composing and setting-"the female in Letters Patent of the United States No.

437,139, wherein matrices containing the various characters are suspended on inclined Wires WhlCh converge toward their lower ends, Where they are arranged in'v erticzil,

parallel tiers, so that the descending matrices may be assembled in a cmnn'ion line between them. class it is common to n'ovide'earh matrix bar with the same letter or character in two different forms, one above the other, so that either one of the characters may be brought into action at the casting level by raising or lowering the matrix. In order to permit this vertical adjustment of the matrices in.

relation to the coiiynanting mold, ditt'crcnt complicated construct ions have been adopted. In some cases the entire series of guide wireshavc been raised and lowered with the matrices upon them. In another case the .niatriccs have been jointed near their upper ends, so that theupper portion surrounding the guide wire could rotate thereon, in order to permit the lower portion to rise and tall.

The object of our invention is to avoid these complications, and at the same time leave thepverlying guide wires close together,- in order to avoid thatv excessive lengthening of the matrices which would result from separating the guides vertically. To this end we provide our matrices at the upper end with elongated eyes or slots, so that they may be raised -id lowered bodily in relation to the guide wires from which they are'suspended, and instead of arranging the guidewires at their lower ends in two vertical tiers or columns, we arrange Germany, have jointly invented certaln new and useful Im- In modern machines of this.

them in four parallel tiers, the ends of the respective matrices being bent laterally in such manner that although their body portions are assembled in a common line, their upper ends will extend to and remain in engagement with the respective guides. This arrangement of the guide wires in four or more tiers permits us-to keep the wires within narrow limits vertically, so that relatively short matrices may be employed, while at the same time there is sufficient room between the wires to admit of thematrices sliding upward and downward thereon in relation thereto, to bring the upper or the lower matrix characters into action.

In carrying our invention into etlect, the upper or converging portions of the wires must, of course, be so disposed that a matrix descending on one wire will not be obstructed in its course to the line by the other XYlI'QSa: The wires may be variously ar- ;i'anged to this end. In the accompanying drawings we have shown several alternative arrangements. I 'ith the exception of the guides and matrlces, the machine may be of any ordinary construction. Ne have therefore limited the drawings to the parts to which our in vention relates Figure l is a"- vertical section through the lower or assembling portioi of the guide wires of a machine constructed on our plan, there being 'l'ou r vertical tiers or rows of guide wires with matrices thereon. Fi 2 is a view showing a similar or equivalent arrangement of the guide wires. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the arrangement shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4. is a vertical section on the line A-B in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side elevation looking in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3. Fig. (3 is a side elevation showing anothearrangement of the upper ends of the guide wires, to conflict with the descending matrices. Fig. 7 is a top plan view of still another arrange ment- Fig. 8 is a. perspective view of the upper rear portion of the guide supporting frame, with the wires in still another arrangemcnt. Fig. 9 is across section through the series of guides, showing matrices of different forms suspended therefrom.

l1. each of the arrangements shown the wires converge with a downv" rd inclination toward the front of themachine, and terminate at the lower end in four parallel tiers or rows, the space between the two Patented June 14:, 1910.

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y from a wire may be lifted bodily in relation thereto. Other matrices, i, have their upper. ends deflected laterally, and provided with vertical eyes or slots at the. extremity. The matrices of the difierent forms are suspended on the different wires-the 'ar rangement being such in ever ever,'that a matrix may descend freely from the upper to the lower-end of the particular Wire on which it is suspended, withoutbeing arrested by conflict with the other wires. The form and arran ement of the matricen'is also such, that whet er supported irom the inner or the outer wires, the body portionsof all the matrices will pass between tl1e innermost wires, 6, b, at their lower ends, so that all the matrices will be assembled side by side-in a common line.

- Each of the matrices is provided in the lower end with two'or more matrices or type character's, m, one above the other. Usually each matrix carries the one character in different forms, so that any one may bebrought into action in a manner well understood in the. art.

The guide wires in each tier are separated vertically to such an extent that the matrices sus ended thereon may be raised-and low ere in relation thereto a sufiicient distance to bring any one of the characters'on the matrix to the alining or casting level. It will be seen that if the guide wires were arranged necessa in twotiers only instead of four, and at the distance apart to permit the ver tical adpistmentof the m2 trices, the tiers would have to be of far greater height than under the arrangement shown, and the mat rices would have to be increased in length accordingly. It is to be understood that, as in other machines of this class, the matrices of differentllengths, suspended fromwires at diiferent heights, will have their lower ends at a common level, so that when assembled i line they may all cooperate with the mold or casting mechanism as usual. I I

Fig. 5 illustrates the manner in which,

case, howgliides cross one over another,

with the other; the rear upper ends of the guide wires may be deflected in the manner shown in Fig. 6, or Fig. 7, or they may be attached, as in Fig. 8, to a sup l orting frame.

having a sinuous surface. he only requirement is that the lower ends 0 the wires shall be arranged in more than two vertical tiers; that their upper ends shall diverge; and that they shall ear such rela-' tions as to permit the free passage of the matrices 'from end to end, and the passa e of the bodies of all the matrices to a sing e a line between the innermost wires.

- Having 'descrlbed our mvention, we claim and desire to secnreaby Letters Patent:

1: A matrix composing mechanism, comprising-inclined converging guides havin their lower ends arranged in four vertica tiers; in combination with the matrices suspended from the various guides, all of said matrices arranged to pass as 'totheir body portions between two of said tiers.

2. In amatrix assembling mechanism, a series of inclined converging guides arranged at their lower ends in three or more vertical parallel tiers; in combination with matrices having their upper ends mounted to travel on the respective guides andoflset in such manner that the. bodies of all matrices may pass between two of the parallel tiers.

3. Ina machine of the class-described inclined, convergingguides, having their lower ends arranged in plural vertical tiers, 1n COIIlblIlflblOIl' with matrices havlng their lower ends adapted for assemble e in acommon line and their upper en 5 ofiset different distances to embrace guides'of the respective tiers, substantially as described and shown.

4. In combination with a series of guides arranged in parallel, vertical tiers, a series of matrices adapted to be assembled in a common line between twoiof said tiers their upper ,ends being ofiset laterally diiferent dlstances to embraoe guidesof the different series.

In testimony whereof we have signed jour names to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRISTIAN A. ALBRECHT. LEOPOLD LEIDENBERG. Witnesses: I-

WOLDEMAR Haur'r, HENRY HABPER. 

